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Thanks once again for the interesting discussion. > Web Bundles seem like a purer collection-of-files effort I didn't know about this, seems interesting but C

Thanks once again for the interesting discussion. > Web Bundles seem like a purer collection-of-files effort I didn't know about this, seems interesting but Chrome abandoned it in February. I guess the reason is that Safari and Firefox ignored it. Chrome seems to be bottlenecked by Firefox's engineering capacity and Apple's lack of interest. Agree completely re: dark reader. I use it all the time. Still, a dark reader equivalent for other UI toolkits should be pretty easy to write (maybe not for C++/Rust stuff that tends to be less hookable). They all have some data structures that represent centralized style. And thinking about it ... the reason you don't need a dark reader extension for mobile or desktop apps is that the OS already can restyle UI on the fly, right? Dark mode seems to be automatic for apps using native toolkits (at least on Mac). W.R.T. changes to tab management, I think that could be much easier with a more modular platform because the window management would be a separate app. Instead of writing an extension for a mega-monolithic browser, it'd be more like on Linux where you can write/use a separate window manager that can be independent of the content being displayed.

rektide 4y ago
Where are you seeing the web bundles bring given up on? They shipped a 1.0 at least, in m104. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/VS9UgOC7Wqc/m/FsX4BozLAgAJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/VS9Ug...
- mike_hearn 4y ago
  The blog post: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/web-bundles/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/web-bundles/ "The experimental implementation of navigation to Web Bundles was removed from Chrome in February 2023." https://chromestatus.com/feature/5377722941440000 https://chromestatus.com/feature/5377722941440000 Implementation status: No longer pursuing (tracking bug)
  - rektide 4y ago
    Some of the navigating into a bundle stuff is indeed not presently happening. But there's a bunch of specs for signed exchanges & subresources that underpin & allow resource exchange, and which do have recent drafts. Webpackage seems to be doing OK ish. But yeah we bundles specifically do seem to be all expired. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage#specifications https://github.com/WICG/webpackage#specifications

rektide 4y ago

Where are you seeing the web bundles bring given up on? They shipped a 1.0 at least, in m104. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/VS9UgOC7Wqc/m/FsX4BozLAgAJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/VS9Ug...

mike_hearn 4y ago
The blog post: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/web-bundles/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/web-bundles/ "The experimental implementation of navigation to Web Bundles was removed from Chrome in February 2023." https://chromestatus.com/feature/5377722941440000 https://chromestatus.com/feature/5377722941440000 Implementation status: No longer pursuing (tracking bug)
- rektide 4y ago
  Some of the navigating into a bundle stuff is indeed not presently happening. But there's a bunch of specs for signed exchanges & subresources that underpin & allow resource exchange, and which do have recent drafts. Webpackage seems to be doing OK ish. But yeah we bundles specifically do seem to be all expired. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage#specifications https://github.com/WICG/webpackage#specifications